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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Quantum Makes LTO-9 Tape Drives Available for Scalar Tape Libraries
SAN JOSE — Sept. 9, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO), a global leader in unstructured data and video solutions, today announced that LTO Ultrium format generation...
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Woman-led Team to Research Human-AI Collaboration in U.S. Army Intelligence Work
The Army Research Office is funding a $617,000 grant for a multi-institutional, majority-female research team for technology-enhanced intelligence analysis ledWoman...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Leadership Vision
Wednesday, August 26 at 3:00 PM ET/12:00 PM PT, featuring Jodi Tims, Reyyan Ayfer, Amelia Cole, and Bushra Anjum [video]
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics Roadmap for US Robotics: From Internet to Robotics, 2020 Edition
In 2009, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) published A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics (a.k.a. the Robotics Roadmap), which explored the...
From Schneier on Security
How the FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Operates
The Grugq has written an excellent essay on how the Russian cybercriminal gang FIN7 operates. An excerpt: The secret of FIN7’s success is their operational art...
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Analysis of Ambient Light Sensors
Interesting privacy analysis of the Ambient Light Sensor API. And a blog post. Especially note the “Lessons Learned” section.
From Schneier on Security
Interesting Attack on the EMV Smartcard Payment Standard
It’s complicated, but it’s basically a man-in-the-middle attack that involves two smartphones. The first phone reads the actual smartcard, and then forwards the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPT-3 Generates an Article for the Guardian
Much broiling about the ability of 'AI' do human kinds of tasks. OpenAI has made claims for its language generator GPT-3. How well does it do? The Guardian...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
New from ACM-W Europe
Why is diversity seemingly an NP-Hard Problem? Why can we not simplify the issue and just fix it?
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program
We also pleased to announce the award granted in the last round of discussions.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turn Your Echo into a Phone
Been placing calls via Alexa for some time, this seems to close the loop. This seems to open the loop for new kinds of skills that direct, handle, record, manage...
From Schneier on Security
Ranking National Cyber Power
Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center published the “National Cyber Power Index 2020: Methodology and Analytical Considerations.” The rankings: US China UK ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering the use of Falsification in Science
Here a link to an Opinion piece in the SciAM. Worth a read along with responses. Thinking this and its implications broadly for establishment and testing, and...
From Schneier on Security
The Third Edition of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering
Ross Anderson’s fantastic textbook, Security Engineering, will have a third edition. The book won’t be published until December, but Ross has been making drafts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Patents a Way to get to the Moon
NASA patents a faster, cheaper way to get to the moon. US10696423B1 Will this speed the move to colonizing the moon. Details and patent at link below.Method...
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Video: GigaIO on Optimizing Compute Resources for ML, HPDA and other Advanced Workloads
In this interview, GigaIO CEO Alan Benjamin talks about systems performance problems and wasted compute resources when implementing ML, HPDA and other high demand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Solar Tech Emergent
How good and how soon is still unclear. Solar Closing in on "Practical" Hydrogen ProductionResearchers develop a solar tech that splits water into hydrogen and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk: From a Physics Experiment to a Quantum Network System
Access to the below talk is now open:Thank you for attending Quantum Networks: From a Physics Experiment to a Quantum Network System. This webcast is now on-demand...
From Schneier on Security
US Space Cybersecurity Directive
The Trump Administration just published “Space Policy Directive – 5“: “Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems.” It’s pretty general: Principles. (a) Space systems...
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